If you’re looking to deploy the Auvik collector in a commercial cloud environment like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, you can deploy Auvik on a fresh copy of Ubuntu Server 18.04.
Deploying Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) on Amazon AWS EC2
- Log into your AWS account.
- Note your AWS EC2 region (e.g., us-west1, eu-central-1).
- Head over to http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/.
- Click Launch to begin deployment of the image.
- Configure and deploy the AMI with appropriate resources:
- 1 vCPU
- 2GB RAM
- 8GB disk space
- Ensure you select to install the OpenSSH server during the Ubuntu installation wizard.
- Once your cloud instance of Ubuntu is deployed, follow these steps to SSH into the AWS instance.
- Once connected, follow the steps in How to install the Auvik collector from a bash script.
Deploying Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) on Microsoft Azure
- Log into your Azure account.
- Navigate to https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/canonical.0001-com-ubuntu-server-bionic?tab=Overview and click Create Virtual Machine.
- Configure and deploy the virtual machine with appropriate resources:
- 1 vCPU
- 2GB RAM
- 8GB disk space
- Ensure you select to install the OpenSSH server during the Ubuntu installation wizard.
- Once your cloud instance of Ubuntu is deployed, follow these steps to SSH into the Azure machine.
- Once connected, follow the steps in How to install the Auvik collector from a bash script.